Well what will you do in the next 365 days?
Happy New Year to everyone as well.
I'll be doing what I do best: breaking resolutions.
i have no better answer than ^^^that one.
Happy New Year, one and all! I personally will slog through another year...I hope. Converted the dining area in the house into a place to carve that isn't dependent on the weather. All that took was moving the equipment into the space. I'm looking at surgery on my right ring finger. Once that heals I can go back to carving. At least I'm able to use the table saw and other wood working equipment. That'll cease until the hand is healed, I guess. In my youth, I'd just have worked through the pain.
Happy New Year, y'all. Will be carrying on. Never got into the resolutions thing, and will be sticking to that. ;D
Quote from: Dark Lightning on January 01, 2024, 02:07:21 PMHappy New Year, one and all! I personally will slog through another year...I hope. Converted the dining area in the house into a place to carve that isn't dependent on the weather. All that took was moving the equipment into the space. I'm looking at surgery on my right ring finger. Once that heals I can go back to carving. At least I'm able to use the table saw and other wood working equipment. That'll cease until the hand is healed, I guess. In my youth, I'd just have worked through the pain.
Glad to hear you're keen to carve again. My middle fingers used to lock up and my hip replacement surgeon said it was a quick fix procedure, which I never got around to doing. Then the fingers magically fixed themselves without surgery and are about 95% back to normal.
Quote from: hermes2015 on January 02, 2024, 02:37:32 AMQuote from: Dark Lightning on January 01, 2024, 02:07:21 PMHappy New Year, one and all! I personally will slog through another year...I hope. Converted the dining area in the house into a place to carve that isn't dependent on the weather. All that took was moving the equipment into the space. I'm looking at surgery on my right ring finger. Once that heals I can go back to carving. At least I'm able to use the table saw and other wood working equipment. That'll cease until the hand is healed, I guess. In my youth, I'd just have worked through the pain.
Glad to hear you're keen to carve again. My middle fingers used to lock up and my hip replacement surgeon said it was a quick fix procedure, which I never got around to doing. Then the fingers magically fixed themselves without surgery and are about 95% back to normal.
"Trigger Finger", even if one isn't shooting. My right pinky does it on exertion. It's quite annoying. If I take it easy on that finger, the symptom pretty much disappears. But my whole life has been one of exertion. First comes a cortisone shot, and then a simple surgery if that doesn't work. I'm looking at rebuilding/replacing the engine in my truck (400 big block Chevy). That's going to be taxing my hands, for sure. I hate to hire that kind of help, since it's a lot of money.
Happy New Year!
I'm thoroughly snowed-in and have already spent more time digging in 2024 than I did in 2023. My grand designs apart from that are making my stocks portfolio more robust, going on a road trip with New Flying Deutschmann, reigniting my passion for Dungeons and Dragons and maybe fixing that left shoulder situation. Maybe.
I intend to get my health back again. It is going to be a tough ride because it involves chemo- or immunotherapy combined with a drastic diet change (mainly vegetarian, low carb, fresh produce and no sugar).
Quote from: Tom62 on January 03, 2024, 08:35:13 PMI intend to get my health back again. It is going to be a tough ride because it involves chemo- or immunotherapy combined with a drastic diet change (mainly vegetarian, low carb, fresh produce and no sugar).
May you go through the treatment regime without too much discomfort and regain your health in 2024.
Quote from: Tom62 on January 03, 2024, 08:35:13 PMI intend to get my health back again. It is going to be a tough ride because it involves chemo- or immunotherapy combined with a drastic diet change (mainly vegetarian, low carb, fresh produce and no sugar).
You'll do fine :)
Quote from: Tom62 on January 03, 2024, 08:35:13 PMI intend to get my health back again. It is going to be a tough ride because it involves chemo- or immunotherapy combined with a drastic diet change (mainly vegetarian, low carb, fresh produce and no sugar).
Good doctors and medicine wished upon you!
Building some shelving and drawers for storage in the garage. So far I've managed to cut my right thumb :thumb: pulling a bit out of the router, and ran a nail into my left thumb using the pneumatic nailer. :thumbsup: There doesn't appear to be an emoji holding up the right thumb.
Quote from: Dark Lightning on January 10, 2024, 10:08:48 PMBuilding some shelving and drawers for storage in the garage. So far I've managed to cut my right thumb pulling a bit out of the router, and ran a nail into my left thumb using the pneumatic nailer. :thumbsup: There doesn't appear to be an emoji holding up the right thumb.
I hate when that happens. Put a Phillips bit through the web between thumb and forefinger once. A neat little "X."
Added several months ago. At the bottom of the smiley zoo, a few places left of Spock. :thumb:
Quote from: Recusant on January 11, 2024, 12:45:19 AMQuote from: Dark Lightning on January 10, 2024, 10:08:48 PMBuilding some shelving and drawers for storage in the garage. So far I've managed to cut my right thumb pulling a bit out of the router, and ran a nail into my left thumb using the pneumatic nailer. :thumbsup: There doesn't appear to be an emoji holding up the right thumb.
I hate when that happens. Put a Phillips bit through the web between thumb and forefinger once. A neat little "X."
Added several months ago. At the bottom of the smiley zoo, a few places left of Spock. :thumb:
Thanks for the pointer. I went back and added it to my post.
Now, you can hold your hand up and say, "On the plus side...". That's what the Japanese call a Phillips screwdriver- "plus". Of course, the flat screwdriver is calls "minus".
what about reed prince and pozidriv?
No, but I've installed pozi-drive screws (https://www.google.com/search?q=pozi-drive+screws&rlz=1C1CHZN_enUS973US973&oq=posi-drive&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgCEAAYChiABDIGCAAQRRg5MgkIARAAGAoYgAQyCQgCEAAYChiABDIICAMQABgKGB4yCAgEEAAYChgeMggIBRAAGAoYHjIICAYQABgKGB4yCAgHEAAYChgeMggICBAAGAoYHjIICAkQABgKGB7SAQg4MTI2ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
i have several reed prince screwdrivers that i am holding onto in case i ever see a reed prince screw again
id never seen pozi driv woid screws
the brits used em all over their machinery for case covers
To be clear, the pozi-drive screws were used where I worked, on spacecraft. I use drywall screws mostly in my wood working (when I use screws). Relatively cheap, but not used where they can be seen. Phillips head, of course.
Most screws I get - whatever the intended use - are torx or hex.
Sometimes my trainees misidentify one as the other and ruin my bits >:-(
The vast majority of wood screws I use are pozidrive. Getting hold of small brass slot headed domed wood screws from anywhere but Amazon is now next to impossible.
Check some of your marine hardware suppliers for brass, bronze or monel fasteners.
Quote from: Tank on January 19, 2024, 11:16:18 AMThe vast majority of wood screws I use are pozidrive. Getting hold of small brass slot headed domed wood screws from anywhere but Amazon is now next to impossible.
Lucky you. The box stores around here pretty much only sell slotted head screws if one wants brass. I despise slotted screws, but have to use them in some instances. When I do, I pre-drill the holes and run in steel screws first to make sure I don't twist those brass sumbitches off upon installation. Nothing like trying to remove a broken off screw from a wood working project. I recently made a coat rack using curly birch and managed to get the two broken drywall screws out. Didn't pre-drill deeply enough, and I can assure you that that birch board is one hard sumbitch. It had tear-out from planing to thickness, and I had to run it through my drum sander multiple times to get the surfaces smooth. Obligatory picture of coat rack with splendid figure in the wood, which I do not take credit for:
(https://i.imgur.com/LeyBImP.jpg)
Coat rack including shelf! I feel a project coming on! ;D